Joe Heaney & Gabriel O'Sullivan - Joe & the Gabe [Songs and Music of Galway]

Joe & the Gabe released in 1979 is a vital raw, unaccompanied album featuring Irish Traditional songs by Joe Heaney and tunes by Gabriel O'Sullivan, known affectionately as the Gabe, on Whistle, Flute and Fiddle. The Gabe became interested in the Ballinakill style of flute playing, listening to 78s of the Ballinakill Céilí Band, and the flute playing of Tommy Whelan in particular. Gabe's flute playing, with its punchy, breathy attack, contrasts dramatically with the unbroken flow of the usual East Galway style of flute playing.  Joe Heaney, or Seosamh Ó hÉanaí, came from Carna in West Connemara, a place where few could afford musical instruments, and where music was more often expressed in song.

1. Jack Coughlin's Favourite [Reel]

2. The Gabe's Miss McLeod [Reel]

3. The Widow from Mayo [Song]

4. The Duke of Leinster/The Kylebrack Rambler [Reels]

5. My Blessing on the Big Jug and it Full [Air]

6. Amhrán Muiginse (The Song of Mynish) [Song]

7. Whelan's [Jig]

8. The Lady on the Island [Reel]

9. The Banks of the Sweet Dundee [Reel]

10. Mama's Pet [Reel]

11. The Pipe on the Hob [Jig]

12. Martin Wynne's 2 [Reel]

13. Skibbereen [Song]

14. The Shaskeen [Reel]

15. Dónal Óg [Air]

16. Badoinn Tir Niad (The Teer Nee Boatman) [Song]

17. The Carraroe [Reel]

18. The Belles of Tipperary (The New Policeman) [Reel]

19. The Bogs of Shanaheever [Song]

20. The Green Blanket [Jig]

link to the free album

Joe Heaney & Gabriel O'Sullivan -Joe & the Gabe